The workshops, commissions by the festival, mark 100 years since the first wave of women being given the right to vote in Britain. The idea was to work with and encourage young women who might not normally come to a creative writing workshop to explore ideas of empowerment, belonging, female identity and leadership, through spoken and written word, and to encourage them to access writing opportunities in the future.

Emerging poet, Warda Yassin worked with young Somali women, and act and novelist, Stacey Sampson worked with young people through Sheffield YWCA.